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Support Farmworkers this Lent: Fast for Justice Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/1100307-ciw-farmworkers1.jpg"></a>Will you be giving up chocolate for Lent? Coffee? Then why not fast for justice? Why not abstain from shoppin ...
Human Trafficking and the Food We Buy Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: January 11 is recognized around the world as <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/trafficking/" target="_blank">Human Trafficking</a> Awareness Day. Januar ...
Walking the Talk in the Fight for Fair Food Practices Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/food-and-faith/" target="_blank"></a></p> [ Editors' Note: In November, Sojo ...
One More Cent Means More Dignity for Farmworkers Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/101020-tomato.jpg"></a>On October 13, the <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2009/01/30/seeking-reconciliation-between-rich-and-poor-in-immo ...
How Technology Fought Human Trafficking Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: A couple of months ago, the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/">MetaFilter</a> weblog community came together to rescue a couple of young Russian women from the clutches of a <a href=&q ...
Month of Protests Reveals Grocer's True Colors Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: <script type="text/javascript"></script><p> Young and old, large and small, farmers and pastors, men and women all lined the streets in front of Publix grocery stores in Florida last ...
Penny Per Pound Is Gaining Ground: Join the Call for Tomato Worker Justice Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org"></a>Romeo Ramirez knows a thing or two about abuse. Ramirez became a spokesperson for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in the mid ' ...
Modern Slavery, Modern Abolitionists Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: Two hundred years after slavery was declared illegal in Great Britain, and 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, an estimated 27 million people remain enslaved around ...
Partnerships to End Poverty, Led by the Poor Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: The Poverty Initiative, based at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, has a mission "to raise up generations of religious and community leaders dedicated to building a social movement to en ...
Demanding Justice for the People that Harvest our Food Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://go.sojo.net/campaign/ciw_kroger"></a>Last weekend I watched the documentary Food, Inc. and it left me inspired in a surprising way ...